Clothes-drier



(Model.)

n. K. HIOKOK GLOTHES DRIER.

N0. 422,410. Patented MM. 4 1890.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

DEVVEY KELLOGGHIOKOK, OF MORRISVILLE, VERMONT.

CLOTHES-DRIER.

SPEGIFIGA'I'ION forming part of .Letterslatent N0. 422,410, dated March 4, 1890.

Application fi1e(l Manch 19, 1889. Serial N0. 303,827. (Model.)

T all whom it mag concern:

Be it known thafi I, DEWEY KELLOGG HIOKOK, a oitizen of oho United States, residing a1; Morrisville, in the oounty of Latnoille and State of Vermont, have invented new and usefu1 Improvennents in Clothes-Driers, of whieh the following is a speoification.

The invention relates 130 ixniarovemenos in clothes-driers; and it consists in a oertain nove1 eonstruotion and con1bination of devices, ful1y described hereinafter in oonneotion with ehe drawings, and speoifioally pointed out in the olaim. In the dmwings, Figure 1 is a perSpectivo view of a clothes-drier embodyi ng-my invention. Fig.2 is a ce1itr-al vertioal seotional view of the same. Fig. 3 is a detai1 perspective view of the ocket. Fig. 4 is a similar view of one of the drying-arms.

Referring by 1etter to the dmwings, A designafces a braeket, whieh is provided with a downward oute1 edge having notohes B B, to receive 1311e innen ends of the drying-anns C C, and D designatos a oontinuous pivot-wire whieh extends around the periphery of the bracket ab the open 1ower ends of the said notehes and engages a longitudinal 51013 E in the drying-arm. Tho arrns are applied to the pivot-wire by passing the 1atter through the notoh e, whioh connmunicates with the szmid longitudinal slot.

\Nhen oho pivot-wire is at the inner end of the slot E, ehe drying-arms are free to bang verbioally in the folded pos'ition, as shown by a few of tl1e 2ums in Fig. l, and to arrange the arms in the operative osition they are 1ifted to a horizontal position zmnd oben slipped rearWardly o1 inwardly until their ends engage oho upper ends of the notches B am] extend under the bracket.

G designates a socket-plate,whioh is provided with the downwardly convergent flanges H H, having thei1 adjacent; edges beveled, so as to forn1 a dovetailed soeket. The portion of the plate between the flanges is Gut; zuway, as seen at g, to reduoe the weight, leaving only a central vertioal bar or rib K.

The braoket is provided at its 1ear edge With adepending arm L, whieh is dovetailed in cros's-section and tapered toward irs lower end to fit between the flanges of oho p1a-te, and this arm is provided on its rear side near its 10We1. end Wlth a notch M, which engages atransverse rib or shoulder N, looated at o1 adjacent to the lower ends of the flanges.

The objeot of the oentral bar 01 rib K is to guide the arm L to its proper position and prevent it from being inserted through the opening g in the p1ate. The rib o1 shoulder N prevents the arm L fromm being aoeidentally detached fron1 the soeket.

Having thus described the 'invention, I claim The oombination of a socket-plate, having a dovetailed socket and a shoulder o1 rib at the 1ower end of the soeket, and oho braokot provided wifih a dovetailed arm fitting in the said Socket and havinga notoh to engage oho said shoulder or rib, substantially as speoified. In testim0ny that I ol-aim the foregoing as my own Ihave hereto affixed my signature in presenoe f two witnessos.

DEIVEY KELLOGG HICKOK.

Witnesses:

RUSSEL S. PAGE, SMITH B. WAITE. 

